Every now and then, I think it would be fun to open a Lost Ogle-themed bar and grill called Mom’s Basement – a smokey, divey establishment complete with a coin operated laundry.

Considering how awesome and popular we are, it could work. We could have Free Team Trivia every night of the week, a full selection of Anthem beers on tap, a 15-minute “Aint Nobody Got Time For That” lunch guarantee, and TLO-inspired menu items such as:

– Ogle Mole Enchiladas
– AT’s $65,000 Meatloaf
– Lil’ Bit of JoJo Cakes
– Hipster Boo Boo Beautiful Burrito
– Traber Bros. Turkey Soup
– Dean’s Lil’ Smokies
– Louis Fowler’s Lamb Loins

Actually, we should get Louis to write descriptions on the menu. People would come in just to read it!

Fortunately, there are some relics of failed restaurants of the past floating around out there that remind me that slapping our name on a bar and grill may not be the best idea — and far from a guaranteed success. For example, check out what was recently available for sale on the Facebook Marketplace:

I’m not sure if it was the happy hour specials consisting of only beer and radishes or the fact that most of the waitresses were women that Al met on his trips to Thailand, but like 95% of all sports bars, Al Eschbach’s Bar & Grill never really took off.

Although we missed our chance to purchase this fragment of OKC’s failed bar and restaurant history, there is another item that is available for free:

Keep LifeChurch.TV.INFO.com mega church pastor Craig Groeschel in your thoughts in prayers.

Yesterday afternoon, Oklahoma City based Gulfport Energy – one of many floundering energy companies that may not be around in a year or two – announced they are laying off 13% of their workforce.

In addition to that, Craig Groeschel announced he is stepping down from his cushy $207,443 seat on the company’s Board of Directors – a position he’s held since 2011.

Here are details via NewsOK.com:

There are few things that give TLO more delight than ragging on The Pioneer Woman. My personal biggest complaint with her is that most of her recipes that I’ve attempted just turned out mediocre at best. I consider myself an able home cook, but I just can’t make her food taste good.

The most egregious was when I attempted Ree’s cornbread recipe, that probably had a huge lead-up about how “The Marlboro Man (my hubby) just hates food that isn’t raw steak, so I had to convince him to try my great-grand-mema’s recipes, and he LOVED IT!” The cornbread sucked, and after all the bad food blogger cornbread recipes that I’ve tried, these days I just resort to the boxed Jiffy stuff.

Anyways, since this is the season for potlucks between work, family, and friends, and we’re all obligated to bring home-cooked food everywhere, I thought I’d embark on the proud TLO contributor tradition of scrolling through the Pioneer Woman archive and – as opposed to being positive –finding her worst Thanksgiving recipes…

Thanks to vape pens, it’s now easier than ever for mischievous high students – and burned out teachers – to get a quick nicotine or THC fix in the school bathroom.

Naturally, the fun police at one Oklahoma school district is aware of this, and thinks it has a solution. Via News9.com:

The Thomas-Fay-Custer school district installed 16 sensors in the district’s junior and senior high school bathrooms. Two sensors were installed per bathroom.

It’s making a huge impact.

“We needed to take a stance, kind of like what we do with tobacco,” said Rob Royalty, Superintendent of the Thomas-Fay-Custer School District.